Essays Civil and Moral, Advancement of Learning, Novum Organum, Etc (Classic Reprint)

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- would best advance his ends. Thus, when, as one of her majesty's counsel, he had to plead against Essex in 1600, after his complete failure in Ireland, he treated him not tenderly, as he admits, hoping thereby to retain the queen's goodwill, and afterwards use it in favour of Essex. Six weeks later Essex was liberated, but forbidden to come to Court. Bacon wrote to Essex, that though he loved few persons better than himself, yet he loved the queen's service and her favour, and the good of his country more. He appeared for the Crown at Essex's trial for treason in 1601, and largely helped to secure his conviction. Prof. Gardiner palliates his appearing thus against his former friend and bene factor by referring to the insecurity of the State and the necessity of preventing ambitious men from gaining undue authority, and then producing revolt and anarchy. But if Bacon's so-called love for Essex had had any real existence we cannot believe that he would have aided in bringing a death sentence on him. Even if all were the fault of Essex, Others might have been allowed to point the arrow, wing it for flight, and take the deathly aim. In the last years of Elizabeth's reign Bacon busied himself in the advocacy of religious toleration in Ireland, and the establish ment of courts of justice there without English technicalities. He also proposed the introduction, as a sort of garrison, of English settlers.

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